Blanche Lincoln, The Kennedy Family, The History Channel And Right Wing Propaganist Joel Surnow

Propagandist Surnow belongs on Fox, not the History Channel

Blue America has been pounding reactionary Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln since last spring. Once she joined the GOP to declare she would filibuster Employee Free Choice, we've been running campaign after campaign against her lobbyist loving/worker and healthcare hating corrupt hide. We've explained to all the local TV stations that we don't want to buy any space on Glenn Beck's hate show. But they keep running our ads on it anyway and then when I get the monthly logs I just tally up the hundreds of dollars that went towards Glenn Beck and get refunds in the form of ads on other shows. Last month we took around $370 of Glenn Beck ads and ran them in the Memphis market (Arkansas side of the river only, of course) on BET, TBSC, USA, TNT and the History Channel on shows from "Celebration of Gospel 2010," "The Cookout," "Everybody Hates Chris," "Monica Still Standing," and "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" to "The Rose Parks Story," "Casino Royale, "Seinfeld," "The King of Queens" and "The Office." And you wonder why Blanche's re-elect numbers are the lowest of any member of the U.S. Senate?

Well, as of last week, no more Blue America ads will be run on "Rommel's Last Stand," "Modern Marvels," "Monster Quest," "Pawn Stars," "Sex in the Bible," or that annoying R. Lee Ermey's "Lock N' Load." We are done with the History Channel-- D-O-N-E. Ever since we read in the NYTime about how the History Channel is working with right-wing propagandist Joel Surnow on a Kennedy-smearing mini-series we decided they'll have to do without our ad dollars. Political character assassination isn't something we're underwriting, especially not with the Leni Riefenstahl of today's far right.

As for Blanche, her ratings continue to tank and it is now clear that she is unelectable-- even against a clown like John Boozman. African-American voters, which are the voters Blue America has aimed our ads towards, have now recognized her as a shill for Wall Street and the Big Business interests who are no friends of theirs. She will lose in all 8 counties along the Mississippi, the heartland of statewide Democratic wins-- as she should since she never serves the interests of the ordinary families in those counties. Please continue donating to Blue America's Arkansas education fund; rest assured that none of it will be spent on the History Channel-- and that lots will be spent on BET. And please take a look at the short documentary Brave New Films has put together explaining Surnow's perfidy in smearing the Kennedy name: